Saturday Prayer: Finding Hope in Hard Places

Father, you are the God of hope, the light that no darkness can overcome. You specialize in resurrection - bringing life from death, beauty from ashes, hope from the hardest places. Even here, even now, you're working something beautiful.

I've been struggling to see past this difficult season, feeling like these circumstances will never change, like this pain will never end. Hope feels naive, optimism feels foolish. But you keep planting hope in impossible soil, don't you? Thank you for every small sign that you're not finished with this story, for strength I didn't know I had, for help that came just when I needed it. Thank you for the people who reminded me that winter doesn't last forever.

Breathe hope into my weary heart. Help me see this season not as an ending but as a beginning, not as punishment but as preparation. When I can't see how things will get better, help me remember how faithful you've been before. Tonight, I choose hope not because my circumstances have changed, but because you never change. You are making all things new, including me.